Wednesday, December 5, 2007

New Dress

//new dress

You should look like a poet,wherever you go,I read somewhere in a book of advice to poets.How do poets dress?I do not know.In a black velvet beretand flowing white silk blouse,decollete?Usually I go to three or sostores, try ona few dresses,decide my jeansand silver earringswill do after all.Today, stepping off a store escalator,I saw a plain and simple dress.It was my size,small,it was my blue,Druid,my length,long,my material,unpressed linen.I fell in loveand put it on.Three salesladies exclaimed,“It’s your color.”“It fits you perfectly.”“It looks wonderful.”It’s true.I feel like a poet, in my dress of linen, blue.